Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:22:07 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, kmholla@gmail.com Subject: Re: Hi: Porting Cramfs on FreeBSD Message-ID: <451AA52F.2020408@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <200609271307.k8RD7G01016290@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200609271307.k8RD7G01016290@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On 09/27/06 08:07, Oliver Fromme wrote: > krishnamurthy holla wrote: > > I want to port cramfs to freebsd-6.1 ; can anybody give me > > some tips about how to port.. > > I think porting cramfs is not a good idea. It's GPL'ed, > doesn't fully support POSIX semantics, and has severe > limitations (16 MB maximum file size, 256 MB maximum file > system size). > > It is probably better to design a new file system from > scratch (and make it BSD-licensed). > > Just my 2 cents. > > Best regards > Oliver > I'm currently working on a tarfs, that will do something similar to this, except it allows you to use a regular tar file as the file system image. I don't have compression working yet, but that is on the roadmap. It's also more fully featured than cramfs - it will support the full uid/gids, . and .. directories, hard links, large file system sizes (based on available memory), real timestamps, full permissions (but not extended attributes), and will be BSD licensed. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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